Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | But remember it was your decision to buy it in the first place , nobody else 's , and if it 's you that 's wrong , or you that does n't suit the item , then you probably do n't have any entitlement to an exchange or a refund . |
2 | Mr Cinnamond said all the money was ploughed back into the club , except for what it took to pay back those who had put up the finance to buy it in the first place . |
3 | That product there already either exists or we 're going to do it for the first time for an estate agent |
4 | Why bother to do it in the first place ? |
5 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |
6 | Yes , but I mean , you have to , you not to not know that you have to count it from the first one does n't matter . |
7 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
8 | The fact that it was profoundly a work of synthesis was obviously much less important at first , and may even seem not very important now , as one settles down to enjoy it for the first or umpteenth time . |
9 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |
10 | Upon wiping away the icy incrustation from the face , the countenance was immediately recollected ; but , the frame appearing lifeless , assistance was procured to convey it to the first house upon the skirts of the village , when , a pulsation being observed , every possible means was instantly adopted to promote his recovery . |
11 | I went to the , I went to the gold shop when they were shut actually , w to get it in the first place |
12 | The employee had conceived the idea for the valve in March 1985 and was able to test it for the first time several months later ; the employer applied for a UK patent in March 1986 ; and three years later the employee applied for compensation . |
13 | The second player then breathes in and tries to take it off the first until it reaches the player at the end . |
14 | Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course . |
15 | When the data base for syntactic analysis is a body of naturally occurring speech rather than experimentally elicited material , analysis and interpretation of that data is liable to raise even more problems than finding a way to collect it in the first place ( see 7.2 ) . |